Re: Germanic weak verbs and **do**

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From: Piotr Gasiorowski

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Sent: Monday, March 06, 2000 3:46 PM

Subject: [cybalist] Odp: Germanic weak verbs and **do**

 

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From: Mark Odegard

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Sent: Sunday, March 05, 2000 7:03 PM

Subject: [cybalist] Germanic weak verbs and **do**

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A small self-correction:

I wrote: ... It was only the preterite and the past participle of such verbs that contained the suffix *-d- often interpreted as an incorporated form of *dh(e)H-. The present-tense stem DID NOT contain it. E.g. Old English lufian 'to love', p. lufode derive from *lubo:-j-o: and *lubo:-d- respectively.

I gave the form of the OE infinitive and the protoform of the 1st person sg. Actually lufian < *lubo:-j-ana-. The point is that one stem form (*lubo:j-) is used for the infinitive and the present tense and another (*lubo:d-) for the preterite and the past participle. It is the preterite stem that is a Germanic innovation.

 

... and an afterthought:

 

BTW, compounding dheH with a noun to form a verb was already PIE practice:

 

*kred-dheH- 'entrust, commit, place as a loan' (Latin  cre:do, OIrish cretim, Skt. śrad-dha:-)

Skt. na:man-dha:- 'give a name, call'

 

Piotr